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Elizabeth Eisenhauer

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Oncologist. Scientist. Cancer researcher. Believer in family, friends, music , the power of reason, critical thinking and goodwill.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits -- from 51 units to 300. Dunn House is more humane way to helping vulnerable people, Dr. Andrew Boozary says, by @liamdevlincasey.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca @jryerson.bsky.social
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Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits | CBC News
A Toronto hospital network is set to greatly expand its unique permanent housing program that largely serves homeless people who visit hospital emergency departments an inordinate amount of time.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Common Sense Oncology and EORTC collaboration on QoL reporting in adjuvant cancer settings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@young.me interestingly Ontario announced that the week of Sept 22 (i.e. now) elderly and high risk individuals could get new COVID vaccines, but best I can tell: no pharmacies, public health units or family doctors offices have them! They all say more like 2 weeks from now! Do you have any intel?
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I really found this piece by Kevin Boucher enlightening (in a positive way despite the title…!). About the evolution of Canada’s plans for spreading her wings internationally ( @maryfernando.bsky.social you might esp like it) kevinboucher32.substack.com/p/canada-isn...
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Canada Isn't Turning to China. It's Doing Something Much More Dangerous.
The fight over Canada isn't about trade. It's about whether a sovereign country can diversify its way out of dependence — and what happens to American power if it does.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There is no bottom to his pettiness That’s all I can say
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Maybe US leaders need to learn extortion is not a negotiating tactic
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
a propos of “nothing in particular”: Extortion is not negotiation
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My guess: Lutnick’s involvement in the last hours with more demands than had already been agreed with Greer made it un- doable. it was time for Canada to walk away. Frustrating: the US has magical view that tariffs will help their economy. So far their experiment is heading in opposite direction.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The view from here: Prince Edward Island. Receiver coffee art and Dunes
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Ottawa should ban flavoured vapes. The federal government should bring in the long-promised ban, which would eliminate sweet flavours that appeal to children. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Globe editorial: Ottawa should ban flavoured vapes
The federal government should bring in the long-promised ban, which would eliminate sweet flavours that appeal to children
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
After the storm - the view from here #ygk #Canada Day
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The Canadian Cancer Trials Group @cctg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The @cctg.bsky.social, @eortc.org, and @amrc-uk.bsky.social welcome the #G7 Leaders’ announcement recognizing cancer as a global priority and calling for stronger international cooperation to improve outcomes for patients: buff.ly/lvBpd0V
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
As 3 cancer trials groups with a history of international collaboration, CCTG, EORTC and UK3CR welcome the G7 leaders statement on accelerating cancer research. In particular we underscore how critical stable investment in independent academic cancer trials is to advancing into patient care.
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CCTG, EORTC and UK3CR welcome G7 commitment to accelerate global progress against cancer
/CNW/ - The Canadian Cancer Trials Group (CCTG), the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), and the UK Collaborative for Cancer...
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It was absolutely foreseeable that flavoured vapes would create a new nicotine addicted generation of young people in Canada. Time to ban flavours that have one purpose only: to draw in new users.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
great news!
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In 10 years of MAID, more than 100,000 Canadians have averted unnecessary suffering at end-of-life. That's cause for celebration. Assisted death has become a significant ritual, not a 'slippery slope,' by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: Ten years of MAID, and suffering averted, is cause for celebration
It won’t become a slippery slope, but remain what it is now - a dignified ritual and ceremony
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The view from here - Lupins!
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🧵 1/7 BigTobacco has long argued that “smoke-free generation” laws are illegal under EU law? If so, it would stop part of Tobacco & Vapes Bill from being extended to Northern Ireland. Our new & detailed legal analysis in Health Economics, Policy & Law argues that this is wrong.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The view from here. LOng weekend to celebrate anniversary in Prince Edward County
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Re: this Hantavirus ”..…timing of infectiousness remains incompletely defined. While symptomatic patients are likely to represent the highest-risk group, available outbreak reconstructions do not support overly categorical statements that transmission can occur only after clear symptom onset.”
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
à propos of everything and nothing: The world needs to have more grown ups in leadership roles
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Julie Gralow @jrgralow.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Terrific @csoncol.bsky.social meeting in Montreal. Fun dinner with “CSO OncoBabes” - Named by @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social. Also plenty of plaid flannel and poutine. @angiedemichele.bsky.social @winettevandergraaf.bsky.social
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BG Lab @oncologybg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
New episode of our Grounded in Groundshot podcast is out! In this episode, I talk with Christopher Jackson, my 3rd favorite Kiwi, on far ranging topics including who decides what is right, Edmund Hillary scaling Mt. Everest and defining success. You’ll surely enjoy it! youtu.be/P3uL2TBMRrk?...
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Grounded in Groundshot Episode 3: Meet Prof. Chris Jackson
YouTube video by Bishal Gyawali
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Another floor crossing today in Canadian Parliament! It has to mean something about leadership, the governing plans for the country, and perhaps a desire to be on the side of constructive change (?)
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sounds like the “McNamara Fallacy” all over again (Reference FYI: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamar...)
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McNamara fallacy - Wikipedia
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Ok that’s enough thank you. The view from here #ygk
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Family baking tradition on Good Friday
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Family baking tradition in Good Friday
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Predicting lots of kids and pets soon to be named Artemis/Arty etc.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Great example of “herding “ in oncology drug development. Simultaneously development of multiple me-too agents in near identical trial designs can amplify failure ( “PCR“ of failed trials), to say nothing of costing countless pts toxicity and lost opportunity. bmjoncology.bmj.com/content/5/1/...
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Human and financial consequences of herding in oncology drug development: clinical trials of TIGIT inhibitors
Objectives To illustrate and quantitate how herding in oncology drug development (five or more biopharmaceutical companies competing to develop modulators of an identical target) amplifies the number ...
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BG Lab @oncologybg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Thank you very much @jrgralow.bsky.social @ascocancer.bsky.social for such an inspiring lecture to our GLPH 488 class today @queensuhealth.bsky.social sharing mentorship and career lessons from your life. The students- and their teacher - are inspired and honoured to learn from you!
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European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer @eortc.org · 20/03/2026
We’ve just wrapped up the EORTC 2026 Strategy Meeting! Two inspiring days bringing global leaders together to strengthen independent, patient‑centred clinical cancer research. Grateful for the collaboration and insight. 🔜 Stay tuned! #EORTC #ClinicalResearch #CancerResearch
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This ⤵️ says it all. And so well
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Such an amazing resource for primary care population level research! Sadly in Ontario/Canada the move to EMRs was done through individual practices and hospitals in a vendor/purchaser model so interoperability for pt care (and of course for research data) is huge issue
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Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · 06/03/2026
Longer waits, fewer doctors, worse care. Time for the feds to shut down Danielle Smith’s attack on Medicare. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Advocacy groups call on feds to review Alberta's Bill 11 health-care reforms | CBC News
Doctors across Canada are "deeply concerned" about the Alberta government's plan to expand private health care, said Dr. Margot Burnell, president of the Canadian Medical Association — and they want O...
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
From 2005 to 2019 📈 Ontario’s 65+ population grew 56 % 📉 Hospital beds grew 3% This isn’t an “immigrant problem” ...it’s a planning fiasco. @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Iris Gorfinkel: We’re blaming our overstuffed ERs, excruciating surgery waits and family doctor deserts on exactly the wrong people
As wait times soar and millions struggle without a family doctor, the old “blame the immigrants” narrative has made a comeback in Canadian politics and media. This kind of rhetoric
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I, in particular, need to re-post these wise words of Dwight D. He was, after all, a remote relative. And probably the last great republican
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Here is Hillary Clinton’s opening statement to House Oversight on Epstein. Clinton says she does not recall ever encountering Epstein and says she knew nothing about his crimes. She also says that Trump should testify under oath and criticizes the committee for not holding any public hearings.
"Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, Members of the Committee... as a former Senator, I have respect for legislative oversight and I expect its exercise, as do the American people, to be principled and fearless in pursuit of truth and accountability.
As we all know, however, too often Congressional investigations are partisan political theater, which is an abdication of duty and an insult to the American people.
The Committee justified its subpoena to me based on its assumption that I have information regarding the investigations into the criminal activities of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Let me be as clear as I can. I do not.
As I stated in my sworn declaration on January 13, I had no idea about their criminal activities. I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island, homes or offices. I have nothing to add to that.
Like every decent person, I have been horrified by what we have learned about their crimes. It's unfathomable that Mr. Epstein initially got a slap on the wrist in 2008, which allowed him to continue his predatory practices for another decade.
Mr. Chairman, your investigation is supposed to be assessing the federal government's handling of the investigations and prosecutions of Epstein and his crimes. You subpoenaed eight law enforcement officials, all of whom ran the Department of Justice or directed the FBI when Epstein's crimes were investigated and prosecuted. Of those eight, only one appeared before the Committee. Five of the six former attorneys general were allowed to submit brief statements stating they had no information to provide.
You have held zero public hearings, refused to allow the media to attend them, including today, despite espousing the need for transparency on dozens of occasions.
You have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files. And when you did, not a single Republican Member showed up for Les Wexner's deposition.
This institutio…as the public who also want to get to the bottom of this matter. My heart breaks for the survivors. And I am furious on their behalf.
I have spent my life advocating for women and girls. I have worked hard to stop the terrible abuses so many women and girls face here and around the world, including human trafficking, forced labor, and sexual slavery. For too long, these have been largely invisible crimes or not treated as crimes at all. But the survivors are real and they are entitled to better.
In Southeast Asia, I met girls as young as twelve years old who were forced into prostitution and raped repeatedly. Some were dying of AIDS. In Eastern Europe, I met mothers who told me how they lost daughters to trafficking and did not know where to turn. In settings around the world, I met survivors trying to rebuild their lives and help rescue others - with little support from people in power, who too often turned a blind eye and a cold shoulder.
If you are new to this issue, let me tell you: Jeffrey Epstein was a heinous individual, but he's far from alone. This is not a one-off tabloid sensation or a political scandal. It's a global scourge with an unimaginable human toll.
My work combatting sex trafficking goes back to my days as First Lady. I worked to pass the first federal legislation against trafficking and was proud that my husband signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which increased support for survivors and gave prosecutors better tools for going after traffickers.
As Secretary of State, I appointed a former federal prosecutor, Lou CdeBaca, to ramp up our global antitrafficking efforts. I oversaw nearly 170 anti-trafficking programs in 70 nations and directly pressed foreign leaders to crack down on trafficking networks in their countries. Every year we published a global report to shine a light on abuses. The findings of those reports triggered sanctions on countries failing to make progress, so they became a powerful diplomatic tool to drive concrete…Infuriatingly, the Trump Administration gutted the Trafficking in Persons Office at the State Department, cutting more than 70 percent of the career civil and foreign service experts who worked so hard to prevent trafficking crimes. The annual trafficking report, required by law, was delayed for months. The message from the Trump Administration to the American people and the world could not be clearer: combatting human trafficking is no longer an American priority under the Trump White House.
That is a tragedy. It's a scandal. It deserves vigorous investigation and oversight.
A committee endeavoring to stopping human trafficking would seek to understand what specific steps are needed to fix a system that allowed Epstein to get away with his crimes in 2008.
A committee run by elected officials with a commitment to transparency would ensure the full release of all the files.
It would ensure that the lawful redactions of those files protected the victims and survivors, not powerful men and political allies.
It would get to the bottom of reports that DOJ withheld FBI interviews in which a survivor accuses President Trump of heinous crimes.
It would subpoena anyone who asked on which night there would be the "wildest party" on Epstein's island.
It would demand testimony from prosecutors in Florida and New York about why they gave Epstein a sweetheart deal and chose not to pursue others who may have been implicated.
It would demand that Secretary Rubio and Attorney General Bondi testify about why this administration is abandoning survivors and playing into the hands of traffickers.
It would seek out officers on the front lines of this fight and ask them what support they need.
It would put forth legislation to provide more resources and force this administration to act.
But that's not happening.Instead, you have compelled me to testify, fully aware that I have no knowledge that would assist your investigation, in order to distract attention from President Trump's actions and to cover them up despite legitimate calls for answers.
If this Committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein's trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in the Epstein files.
If the majority was serious, it would not waste time on fishing expeditions. There is too much that needs to be done.
What is being held back? Who is being protected? And why the cover-up?
My challenge to you, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, is the same challenge I put to myself throughout my long service to this nation. How to be worthy of the trust the American people have given you. They expect statesmanship, not gamesmanship. Leading, not grandstanding. They expect you to use your power to get to the truth and to do more to help survivors of Epstein's crimes as well as the millions more who are victims of sex trafficking."
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Excellent news - Dr Jose Reimer @jossreimer.bsky.social will be Canada’s new Chief Public Health Officer!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Common Sense Oncology @csoncol.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
(1/2) In an important development for the oncology community, The Lancet Oncology & other Lancet family specialty journals are adopting new rigorous standards for clinical trials reporting, consistent with the CSO Checklist. @thelancetoncol.bsky.social #CommonSenseOncology #CancerCare
The Lancet Oncology logo with a screenshot of the Comment title: Greater transparency for oncology clinical trials reporting. Authors: David Collingridge, Allison Landman, Robert Brierley, Claudia Schaefer, Jie Cai, Emma Grainger, Sonia Muliyil, Lan-Lan Smith.
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Common Sense Oncology @csoncol.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Join us for the Common Sense Oncology Pacific Hub! Taking place Thursday, February 26 at 5 pm AWDT / 7 pm AEDT / 9 pm NZT, discuss the challenges and opportunities in oncology in the Pacific and how CSO can better serve the needs of the region. Register: tinyurl.com/us5vbct9 #CancerCare
Common Sense Oncology Pacific Hub. Inaugural Webinar: Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 5 pm AWDT / 7 pm AEDT / 9 pm NZT. Featured speakers: Dr. Deme Karikios, Nepean Hospital; Dr. Samuel Stevens, Common Sense Oncology; Prof. Christopher Jackson, Mercy Hospital. 

Learn about the challenges and opportunities in oncology in the Pacific and discuss how CSO can better serve the needs of your region.
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
@oncologybg.bsky.social FYI you can search for “feeds” that cluster topics of interest. eg oncology publications, medical posts (Medsky), etc. Maybe you should start a “cancer groundshot” feed! lots of folks maintain both X & Bluesky account. There’s a big difference in the tone of comments ….
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Bella and the Bonhomme de Neige The view from here #ygk
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I thought the primordial swamp was a thing of the past. Apparently not
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Elizabeth Eisenhauer @eaeisenhauer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Criminal doesn’t begin to describe this. Horrifying
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